Example sentences of "[modal v] my [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He himself is moved to relieve his distress , but why should my imaginative simulation move me to do the same ? |
| 2 | Should my hon. Friend happen to be in the Cleveland area , I strongly urge her to go to the South Cleveland hospital to see the excellent work being undertaken there with a bone densitometer . |
| 3 | Could my honourable friend explain how that came about ? |
| 4 | Could my Noble Friend er not agree that in fact grant maintained schools have been very successful , not only in raising academic standards in helping parents , but in actually improving the fabric of the buildings |
| 5 | Could my night-time visitor have called in here to pick up the key he had shown me , and left the back door open at the same time ? |
| 6 | What would my poor wife do without me ? ’ |
| 7 | Would my honourable friend be able to explain why it was that in the run up to negotiations with respect to the question of increase in the number of seats er , the German government made it quite clear that they were not interested or did n't want to have the additional number of seats and then subsequently , for reasons that have never been fully explained , we then found that er they had an additional eighteen . |
| 8 | Would my honourable friend er recognise that just up the River Thames from er the South Thames tech is the Surrey tech which is doing and excellent job with local industry in re-skilling particularly younger people and this partnership with industry , not just dependent on what the government does , but what industry itself does to try and help people get back into jobs with the new challenges that are coming from the difficulties that are presented by higher calibre needed particularly for school leavers and other and will he w would she welcome the Surrey tech 's initiative ? |
| 9 | Would my honourable friend , is my honourable friend aware that employment in London and the South East has actually risen by over two hundred in the ten years from March nineteen eighty three and will she confirm that some of the hundred and fifty thousand places in the new apprenticeship scheme will be available in London ? |
| 10 | Would my honourable friend give way , brief , very brief . |
| 11 | ‘ I could remove the ring would my whole personality change ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What would my esteemed partner say must be on that land before it can become a resort ! ’ she asked . |
| 13 | Would my beloved Mother survive the war years ? |
| 14 | Would my hon. Friend , the excellent Minister for Sport , agree that those who play and train for sport are the least likely to get involved in offences ? |
| 15 | Would my hon. Friend care to hazard a guess about how many fewer jobs there would be in that industry if that money had not been given ? |
| 16 | Would my hon. Friend care to comment on the chaos proposed by the Labour party ? |
| 17 | ‘ The day when I attached less importance to ( my stepdaughter ) liking me than to her respecting me , I began to treat her more as I would my own child . ’ |
| 18 | How would my own child see me ? |
| 19 | How , in my dreams , would my native town ( far in the west ) come back , with its church , and trees , and faces ! |
| 20 | My Lords , er would my Noble Friend , subjects are nevertheless best taught by those who have a sympathy for them and in the light of the fact that eighty per cent of er school pupils in the primary sector are taught , th all subjects by the same teacher . |
| 21 | You will have to make assumptions ( for instance , will my regular staff be willing to work holiday weekends ? ) , identify problems ( can the cafeteria cope with the rather different demands of the delegates ? ) , and consider alternatives ( like the various pricing approaches already mentioned ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Above all , what will my dear uncle think if we now return , empty-handed , to report the deaths of Cosmas and Damien ? |
| 23 | Neither , hopefully , will my dear brother . |
| 24 | Will my hon. Friend congratulate Trafford area health authority and everyone involved in the hospitals there on the excellent job that they are doing and especially on the way in which they have brought down waiting lists ? |
| 25 | Will my hon. Friend firmly rebut the criticisms made by those who continue to argue that although the aims of that Act are excellent , the funding arrangements to support it are not ? |
| 26 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that the Football Trust gets an extra £20 million from the 2.5 per cent . |
| 27 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that the worst-ever cuts in education took place in 1976 under a Labour Government ? |
| 28 | Will my hon. Friend confirm the Government 's total commitment to adult education and its comparative cheapness in providing excellent courses for so many people ? |
| 29 | Will my hon. Friend ensure that every parent in the county gets one ? |
| 30 | Will my hon. Friend assure my constituents and the House that the Conservative party and Ministers in Scotland are fighting to ensure that that workshop , which has a record of excellence and can carry out plating work which saves the Government millions of pounds on buying replacement parts , will continue because of its record and not for sentimental reasons ? |